Sign ups have started!   Register at Black Diamond Store -  2092 East 3900 South, SLC, UT (call 801-278-0233 for their hours). Cost is $220 cash or check only for payment please.

This is an intensive one evening (Thursday at the SLC REI) plus three-day workshop which begins about 8:00 am each morning and ends around 9:00 pm each evening. Avalanche skills can only be learned by doing, so about 60% of the class is outdoors on the snow actually practicing avalanche skills. The other 40% will be indoor lectures.

Course content includes advanced techniques in avalanche rescue, terrain management and safe travel, snow pack stability evaluation, and the human factor. Weather drives avalanche conditions so much time will be spent learning the relationship of these two.  The course will also focus on reading and recording weather and snowpack data in a professional manner. 

The course is based out of the Wasatch Mountain Club's Lodge at Brighton, and lodging is included in the cost. Instructors include Utah Avalanche Center forecasters along with snow safety professionals from ski resorts, UDOT as well as numerous professional mountain guides.  This course is suitable for hard core recreationalists as well as professionals.

Students must provide the following equipment: warm clothing, 457 kHz beacon and shovel; skis with climbing skins or snowboard with snowshoes/skins.

There will be a potluck supper Sunday night, so you should bring a dish to share. Sneakers or slippers to wear inside the lodge will be convenient.

Students can spend the night at the lodge; bring a sleeping bag and a sleeping pad, earplugs, along with your own pots, pans, dishes and silverware.  For further details call Colleen at 801-365-5522.

This is the first year the Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center will provide a much requested Level 2 course.